Sam Mayer

Sam Mayer

Sam Mayer is from Houston. Full length works include POOLBOY00 (Fusebox; Beaubourg; Co-Lab Projects; UT Austin), THE CUCK (Intramural Theater), and CHET'S SUMMER VACATION (Kennedy Center; Intramural Theater; Rec Room Arts). His work has been developed with The Museum of Human Achievement, The Orchard Project, The Workshop Theater, The Mastheads, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. He is the recipient of the Chesley/...
Sam Mayer is from Houston. Full length works include POOLBOY00 (Fusebox; Beaubourg; Co-Lab Projects; UT Austin), THE CUCK (Intramural Theater), and CHET'S SUMMER VACATION (Kennedy Center; Intramural Theater; Rec Room Arts). His work has been developed with The Museum of Human Achievement, The Orchard Project, The Workshop Theater, The Mastheads, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. He is the recipient of the Chesley/Bumbalo Foundation Prize and a fellowship from the Michener Center for Writers. MFA: UT Austin.

Plays

  • Boy's Club by Sam Mayer
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: digital technology, online gaming + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, political, tragedy
    Keyword: digital technology, online gaming, Phaedra, hippolytus, two hander, small cast, dark comedy, mass surveillance, surveillance capitalism
    The worlds number 4 ranked Counter Strike player and his step father spend the weekend alone together.
  • The Cuck by Sam Mayer
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    10–11
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Euripides, Greek tragedy + 3 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, satire
    Keyword: Euripides, Greek tragedy, big cast, college actors, dark comedy
    The Cuck is Euripedes Electra, but about partying, class, and privilege. In this modern retelling, Electra and her brother Orestes, deprived of their royal birthright, plot deadly revenge against their mother and stepfather to reclaim what’s rightfully theirs while the Argos Music Festival is underway.
  • The Tent (Pop 3) by Sam Mayer
    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 4 more
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    Keyword: real housewives, baking + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, experimental, immersive, pageant, political
    Keyword: real housewives, baking, capitalism, pop music, amateur pornography, pop culture, queer, reality tv, charli xcx
    reality tv, pop music, and amateur porn collide in this mashup about how the muck of culture is equal parts sexy and stupid
  • Chet's Summer Vacation by Sam Mayer
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: small cast, dark comedy + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, horror, romantic comedy
    Keyword: small cast, dark comedy, coming of age, LGBT Coming of Age, coming out, teen drama, magical realism
    A boy falls in love with his air conditioning unit during the hottest summer on record.
  • Bert on Fire by Sam Mayer
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: B-Movie, cars + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, melodrama, romantic comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: B-Movie, cars, pulp, gay teen, teens, bad girls, femme fatale, car accident
    Bert is a nerd. Shelley is a bad girl. What could go wrong? One act.
  • Spa Play! by Sam Mayer
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, melodrama
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    Keyword: one act comedy, girls weekend + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, melodrama
    Keyword: one act comedy, girls weekend, spa, weed, bad girls
    Three girlies go to a spa for a girls weekend and smoke some magic weed. or is it magic? or are they trying to hook up with boys? One act.